Matt Neerincx from the SQL Server Connectivity team introduces the AlwaysOn Availability Group Listener.
Covers the AlwaysOn Availability Group Listener feature and how it works with the AlwaysOn Availability Groups to provide connectivity.
Discusses...

Several dozen customers are already running SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn in production. We have published case studies with some of these reference customers.
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) : http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-SQL-Server...

Converting Log Shipping Configurations to a New Availability Group
Let's take a scenario where you already have a log shipping configuration. You have three databases (db1, db2, and db3) that are set up for log shipping among three different data centers...

Prepare SQL Server for using AlwaysOn feature
To support AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature, an instance of SQL Server must meet the following prerequisites:
The server instance must be running an edition of SQL Server that supports AlwaysOn...

One of the most frequent questions I get asked from customers is which high availability capabilities are available in which editions of SQL Server 2012.
Here are details of SQL Server 2012 Editions and the capabilities: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver...

One of the common questions we hear all the time is what are the requirements for setting up an Availability Group and how does that compare to database mirroring. I would like to answer this by going over a migration scenario.
Let's take a scenario...

In SQL Server 2008 R2, a typical high availability deployment uses Database Mirroring to protect application databases from planned and unplanned downtime. Database Mirroring combined with log shipping and failover clustering provide a great set of features...

Welcome to the official Microsoft SQL Server team blog for SQL Server AlwaysOn. As a team we are excited to share our knowledge with you and more importantly we are keen to get valuable feedback from you about the new high availability and disaster recovery...